Anyway, back to the second part of Sony Ericsson's one-two punch: Mediascape. Anyone who's used any stock Android device -- 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, doesn't matter -- can tell you that the in-built music app is in desperate need of tender loving care, and these guys have given it just that. Basically, Mediascape is your one-stop shop for browsing music, videos, and photos on the device; there's also support for the company's PlayNow store, though we weren't able to test it (it still hasn't launched in the US, though it's available in a number of European markets). The app makes clever use of album art, presenting you with a list of recently-played and favorite tracks when you first start -- there's some Timescape integration as well, where you'll find the art in a Spline representing your chronological consumption of audio. Naturally, it's got support for a variety of browsing modes (album, artist, and so on), background playback, and everything else you'd expect from a basic music player. Well, almost everything -- as we'd mentioned in the hardware section of this review, we were a little underwhelmed with the X10's bass response over the headset, and we would've loved a graphic equalizer in here to help clear that up. No dice. Otherwise, there's not much installed out of the box: a handful of productivity apps from Moxier, a MySpace client, Mobile Systems' OfficeSuite viewer for checking out (but not editing) Office docs, the Quadrapop game, TrackID, and turn-by-turn navigation from Wisepilot that includes a 30-day free trial. The suite has built-in weather forecasts which is nice, but it's hard to say why anyone in the US would consider plunking down for this with Google Maps 4.1 -- and free turn-by-turn along with it -- just a download away.
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